Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 215: Mystery
Although Lawrence did not direct the monsters to fish out the phantoms, he still fished the two small boxes of silver coins onto the boat and pulled them back to the shore. Soon, these small shiny metal pieces attracted everyone's attention.
"These coins are not just the price of precious metals." After holding up a silver coin and looking at the bonfire, Okita Sakura said, "I remember that my master collected one such silver coin. He spent a round and five corners. money."
There are independently issued currencies on the Xinzhou Republic. The units are rounds, angles, cents, and cents. All are decimal. One round is equivalent to two yuan in the White Eagle Federation. In other words, if converted into Baiying Yuan, such a silver coin is equivalent to three Yuan.
"Silver coins should be handled by you, including those things that are still in the water." Lawrence shrugged and said to Zhu Yan. After all, it is very difficult for Lawrence to salvage these large pieces and later shots, because this is after all in a foreign country. He couldn't do many things in other countries.
"Thank you very much for believing in me." After hearing what Lawrence said, Zhu Yan patted Lawrence on the shoulder lightly, and then began to write a note. While writing, he said to Lawrence: "I will find someone to take out these things, and then get a list of goods as soon as possible."
After speaking, he took out the stationery from the space pocket tied around his waist and wrote a note, then took out a wooden kite and let it fly away with the note. Watching the wooden kite fly farther and farther, Zhu Yan explained in a low voice. "I will send the letter to the people in my family now. I think a professional salvage team will come by noon tomorrow."
"Actually I can command the monster phantom to fish up those things." Lawrence said. "There is no need to mobilize people like this."
"It's just spending some money." Zhu Yan shrugged disapprovingly. "It's much easier than salvaging a little bit by ourselves."
"Professional salvage team?" Saifeier also became interested in what Zhu Yan said just now. "Zhu, I know your family is very powerful, but I didn't expect your family to be so powerful that it can actually have a professional salvage team."
"Uh, I didn't explain it clearly." Zhu Yan scratched his head in embarrassment. "This salvage team is not ours, but is made up of mermaids from a few mermaid tribes attached to New Kuaiji Port. If you want to salvage something near this city and don't want to do it yourself, it's best to find them. Because they have clean hands and feet and they charge reasonable fees, they have a good reputation nearby. And because of this, we hire them to help when we want to salvage something."
In the following time, everyone raised a bonfire and started cooking dinner. It's just that because everyone has finished the search work, this dinner is different from yesterday. The food is no longer cooked from the various dry foods used in emergency before, but a seafood barbecue party is prepared.
These seafood were caught by Safir and Okita Sakura. Just now after Zhu Yan learned to drive the boat, he simply shook the boat and Lawrence to explore the top of the ruins, while the two ladies were left on the beach. Because they were boring, they quickly collected seafood.
There are a lot of bait at the mouth of this kind of river, and the gentle mudflats also have enough space for various marine life. At the same time, the special geographical environment made it difficult for fishing boats to operate here, so under the guidance of Okita Sakura, who grew up on fishing boats, they caught a lot of seafood.
"I still think it's a little weird." Zhu Yan said in a puzzled manner after taking a few bites of grilled fish. "The man who moved and exploded these cabins at the time obviously hoped to use the mud that the river washed into the sea to cover it. Live in these cabins and then hide the wealth. But if so, why would he blow up this part of the cabin?"
"Maybe it's for hiding-no, if it's for hiding, it's not enough to just blow it into three pieces, and doing so will also greatly depreciate the wealth on the ship." Hearing Zhu Yan said, Lawrence has never found a lot of wealth. Awakened from the excitement, and at the same time, he grasped what was wrong in his mind. "That person must have spent so much effort not simply destroying wealth, but I think it is to cover up something?"
"If this is the case, there must be some key clues at the scene that I didn't find. After all, today’s working hours are a bit long, and I just checked a lot of places behind. I think we should read it again tomorrow morning to see if there are any clues. "Lawrence said vaguely after biting the squid on the bamboo stick into his mouth.
"My friend, you have done very well." Zhu Yan said, patted Lawrence on the shoulder and said. "Tomorrow, I will accompany you to look for it again. If you can't find it, then forget it. Anyway, we have already earned this adventure."
Everyone had a great meal at the barbecue party that night. Early the next morning, Lawrence and Zhu Yan boarded a boat and went to the location yesterday to continue to inspect the wreckage of the ship. But this time, Lawrence and the others were carefully looking for the situation. Sure enough, I found some unusual clues.
"I feel that there is something wrong with half of the cabin." After investigating many corners with the phantom of a small fish, Lawrence said to Zhu Yan, who was standing behind the boat, swaying, "The outside and inside of the cabin are somewhat different in size. sorry."
The location of the cabin where something was found to be wrong was not the steel-reinforced cabin where the two boxes of silver coins and precious metal cutlery were placed in the center of the entire remains, but in the section leaning to the bow. The most important thing is that this chamber is located at the location of the previous explosion because of the severe deformation of the explosion.
If Lawrence hadn't consciously searched for the most severely damaged areas in the previous explosions today, he would never have found that the room had been almost completely destroyed by the explosion. But also because of the explosion, Lawrence discovered that there was a mezzanine on the wall of this cabin.
If it is an ordinary person, it may not be able to detect this, but with the help of Nora who has absorbed the divine nature. Lawrence and the others used the remaining wreckage to accurately build a 3D model of the wreckage and restored in their minds what it looked like before the explosion. As a result, after the 3D model was restored, Lawrence quickly discovered that several cabins at the break of the hull had disappeared.
Under this premise, Lawrence carefully inspected the hull near the explosion site and the debris scattered in the surrounding silt~lightnovelpub.net~ As a result, he was very lucky to get from a washbasin-sized silo wall plank stuck in the wreckage. Traces of the double wall were found on it. It is deduced that the cabin here originally had a mezzanine.
"It is very likely that someone took the first step and took away what was hidden in the mezzanine, then moved the rest of the cabin and blasted it, destroying part of the hull structure through the explosion to hide the traces of something that he took away." , Saifei's speaking speed slowed down, and at the same time frowned.
"But this leaves a very contradictory problem, that is, the person who discovered this cabin should take away the remaining wealth if he could control it. If he can't control it, after he takes away the most important things. In order not to leave traces to the people behind, these wrecks should also be blown into pieces. It is a bit strange to be like this now."
"Your suspicion is indeed reasonable." Lawrence said to Diffel after asking a few questions from Nora who had operated underwater through the contact team on the soul. "When I inspected the wreck, I found that there were some self-destructing facilities on the wreck that had failed due to long-term sea water soaking. The person who removed the ship in the past blasted the ship into three pieces should have used the ship itself. Self-destructing facility."
"That is to say, the person who took away the things in the mezzanine and destroyed this part of the cabin should be one of the survivors who escaped from the ship, and that person's identity on the ship will not be too low." Okita Ying soon discovered a key point. "That's why he can accurately take away the treasure that may exist in the mezzanine and manipulate the self-destruction system to blow up the ship three times to cover his actions."